Thursday, June 29, 2017

Tarzan and the Cannibal King, The Art of Bernie Fuchs, Cannibis Works 2, Crime Suspense Archives, Dick Tracy, Space Busters/Space Patrol, and new Closeouts!

Just twelve new items, but among them are some all-stars. Tarzan and the Cannibal King is an exciting all-new fully illustrated Tarzan novel...with Alex Niño artwork. And we have the limited, of which there are just 300 copies. The Art of Bernie Fuchs is top drawer and limited to 1000. Cannibis Works is sharp—Tanaka helped design the amazing film Akira. Crime Suspense Archives boasts three Al Williamson stories, plus Crandall and Frazetta. Dick Tracy enters his 1960s sci-fi era with the Moon Maid and spaceships. Space Busters/Space Patrol features Bernie Krigstein, and covers by Norman Saunders. And new Closeouts!

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TARZAN AND THE CANNIBAL KING Deluxe Signed
Signed by Jake Saunders, Zavier Cabarga, Alex Niño, and Jim Gerlach. Limited, 300! Highly Recommended. By Jake Saunders. Art by Alex Niño. An entirely new Tarzan novel, written by the author of Tarzan and the Martian Legion, with nine color paintings (three double-page fold outs), black and white spot illustrations and a full color wraparound dust jacket, all by legend Alex Niño. Finely printed letterpress title page, color painted map endpapers and design work by Zavier Cabarga, printed on premium paper, smyth-sewn and cased in Italian book cloth. Signed by all four contributors! We do not expect this to last long, so reserve your copy immediately. Hyborean, 2017...More.

Item Code: TARCKD
Hard Cover, 8x10, 256pg, Partial Color
$69.99

 
TARZAN AND THE CANNIBAL KING
Limited, 1700. Recommended. By Jake Saunders. Art by Alex Niño. This is a story of young Tarzan, which begins when he is twelve years old. He is still firmly living with the apes, and white men and even natives are new in his life, and so very alien. Here is the jungle god in his untutored youth, living amongst the treetops and battling every day just to stay alive. An entirely new Tarzan novel, written by the author of Tarzan and the Martian Legion, with nine color paintings (three double-page fold outs), black and white spot illustrations and a full color wraparound dust jacket, all by legend Alex Niño. Hyborean, 2017...More.

Item Code: TARCKH
Hard Cover, 8x10, 256, Partial Color
$49.99

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
TARZAN AND THE MARTIAN LEGION
In Quest of Zonthron. Our Highest Recommendation. By Jake Saunders. Art by Tom Grindberg, Michael C. Hoffman and Craig Mullins. As befits the ambitious scope of the story, the artistic presentation is unparalleled. One-hundred-thirty new illustrations were commissioned for this opus, with contributions by Thomas Grindberg, Michael C. Hoffman, and Craig Mullins, on archival, acid-free paper, bound in leather (banth and thoat) in one giant volume. Russ Cochran, 2014...More.

Item Code: MARTLH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 11x12, 424pg, Text/Partial Color
$200.00

See our website for all the new Tarzan novels, several from ERB Incorporated themselves, as they have begun producing their own books again as they did back in the late 1930s and through the 1940s, when ERB was still alive.

 

Art Books

 
THE LIFE AND ART OF BERNIE FUCHS
Limited to 1000 copies. Recommended. By David Apatoff. Forward by Walt Reed. At the peak of his fame, Bernie Fuchs' work was more widely admired—and imitated—than any other contemporary illustrator. At the age of 30 he was named "Artist of the Year" by the Artists Guild of New York. By 1975, he was the youngest illustrator ever elected to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame. Now at last a major retrospective of Bernie's work has been assembled, the first such book published to date, filled with magazine covers, original paintings and a complete look at his career, which was incredibly wide ranging. Illustrated Press, 2017...More.

Item Code: LIFBFH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x12, 240pg, Full Color
$44.95

We just promoted all the Illustrated Press limited editions a couple weeks ago. See our website for the ones still available.

 
FRITZ KAHN Infographics Pioneer
New Bargain-Priced Edition. Recommended. By Uta von Debschitz and Thilo von Debschitz, Foreword by Steven Heller. Destined to bring his work back into the spotlight, this features more than 350 illustrations with extensive captions, three original texts by Fritz Kahn, a foreword by Steven Heller, and an essay about Kahn's life and oeuvre. Natural science buffs, graphics professionals, and anyone interested in visual expression of ideas will be fascinated by this tribute to Kahn's greatest achievements. We've never seen any book like it! Leave it to Taschen to do such a superb tribute to a forgotten genius. Taschen, 2017...More.

Item Code: FRIKAH
Hard Cover, 6x8, 520pg, Partial Color
$19.99

 
CUSTOM LETTERING OF THE 20S AND 30S
564 pages with eight or more images per page! Recommended. Edited by Rian Hughes, Introduction by Leslie Cabarga. This unique publication collects over 4,500 examples of custom lettering from the heyday of Art Deco and the experimental modernity of the Futurists--from geometric fonts, elegant brush scripts, and heavy industrial serifs to hand-drawn eccentricities and outré display types. A cornerstone of any type-lover's library. Leslie Cabarga is the author of more than two dozen books on design, including Logo, Font & Lettering Bible. Includes some wonderful line-drawn chapter heads, movie promos, and more. Korero Press, 2017...More.

Item Code: CUSLE
Soft Cover, 9x9, 576pg, Partial Color
$45.00 $39.95

Leslie Cabarga also designed our lead item this week, Tarzan and the Cannibal King. And in a REAL show of his variety of interests, he also compiled Topless Summer Love Girls. Since it's adult I'm not showing it here, but it's on sale and available on our website: [TPL. $32.99, your price $14.95].

 
WALTER SIMONSON'S THE MIGHTY THOR The Return of Beta Ray Bill Artist's Edition
Collects The Mighty Thor #349-354. The fate of Earth and Asgard hang in the balance as Thor, Beta Ray Bill, and tons of guest-stars battle Surtur and his horde of invading demons! The second Thor Artist's Edition by the legendary comics' creator Walter Simonson! As with all Artist's Editions, each page of art is scanned from the original art, in this case, from Simonson's personal archives. Simonson's first Thor Artist's edition won the prestigious Eisner Award and has gone through multiple printings; don't miss what promises to be an extraordinary book. IDW, 2017...More.

Item Code: WSMTAEH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 12x17, 160pg, b&w
$125.00

 
CANNABIS WORKS Volume 2
Recommended. By Tatsuyuki Tanaka. Tatsuyuki Tanaka's second art collection, and first in 13 years. Tanaka, who also works under the name of Cannabis, is a sought-after Japanese animator and illustrator, who worked on the legendary film Akira. This collects work from 2003 to 2016, and showcases his recent illustrations for books, magazines and record covers, as well as key art for the Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2015. Also: weapon designs for a Japanese movie Gantz, character designs for a short film A Farewell To Weapons; and more. Wataru Satano, 2017...More.

Item Code: CANW02H
Hard Cover, 10x7, 160pg, Partial Color
$39.95

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
DRAGON GIRL AND MONKEY KING The Art of Katsuya Terada
Special Order- takes 3-4 weeks! Highly Recommended. Art by Katsuya Terada. Foreword by Guillermo Del Toro. The first English-language art book showcasing one of Japan's most sought-after painters and illustrators, Katsuya Terada! Dragon Girl and Monkey King collects Terada's art in every mood: sexy, brutal, bizarre, and humorous, including his distinctive Hellboy figurine work and his sexy, feisty space heroines, with and without suits. Plus commentary, and an exclusive interview with the artist! Dark Horse, 2014. Mature Readers...More.

Item Code: DRAGGH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x12, 200pg, Full Color
$39.99

See our website for more books about Anime art, and also for all our books dealing with Japanese art and illustration.

 

Comic Book Archives & Comic Strip Collections

 
WONDER WOMAN 100 PROJECT
Very limited availability. By John Cassaday, Alan Davis, Adam Hughes, Paolo Rivera, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, Dale McKeown et al. All of the Hero Initiative's 100-plus original covers for DC's Wonder Woman 75th Anniversary Special #1 are presented here. Plus a special behind-the-scenes section showing developmental art and more! Hero Initiative partnered with major publishers to create “100 Projects,” in which Hero gets 100 top artists to do original drawings right on blank-covered comics, in eaither black and white or full color. That all-new art is collected here. The originals are auctioned off to benefit Hero. Many covers are wrap-round. DC, 2017. Out of Print....More.

Item Code: WW100
Soft Cover, 7x10, Partial Color
$12.99

See all of our Wonder Woman books and statues on our website. Hope you have enjoyed the movie: our recent trip out of town has prevented us from seeing it yet, but we plan to go this weekend. Everyone I know who has says it's outstanding!

 
FANTASTIC FOUR Epic Collection Volume 2 The Master Plan of Doctor Doom
Collects Fantastic Four #19-32 & Annual #1-2, 1963-64. Our Highest Recommendation. By Stan Lee. Art by Jack Kirby. Lee and Kirby set the standard for out-of-this-world imaginative adventure and launched the Marvel Universe in the pages of Fantastic Four. Now, in 1963, with all the new superheros in place, it's time for the FF to run the gauntlet. The Sub-Mariner takes on the entire Human Race in the first FF Annual. The Thing throws down with the Hulk in a battle so huge it takes the combined might of the FF and the Avengers to stop it! The FF tangle with the X-Men! The second FF Annual features the all-new origin of Doctor Doom. Marvel, 2017...More.

Item Code: FFE02
Soft Cover, 7x10, 448pg, Full Color
$39.99 $34.99

 
PRE-CODE CLASSICS SPACE BUSTERS/SPACE PATROL
Collects Space Busters #1-2, 1952, Space Patrol #1-2, 1952, and Nightmare #1-2, 1952. Highly Recommended. Art by Bernie Krigstein, Murphy Anderson, Kinstler, Tuska. Covers by Norman Saunders and Allen Anderson. This one's got it all: painted cover art by pulp legends Allen Anderson and Norman Saunders, EC's Bernie Krigstein (principal artist in all four "Space" issues), and "The True Story of Flying Saucers" written by Harry Harrison, who went on to win Hugo awards as one of the big names in Science Fiction. Murphy Anderson does a story here, and Everett Raymond Kinstler and George Tuska also contribute! Publisher Ziff-Davis didn't last long in comics, but they did first class work, as good as any comics of the period. PS Artbooks, 2017...More.

Item Code: PCSB01H
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x10, 216pg, Full Color
$59.99

We have every available Pre-Code Classic on our website. Quite a few are currently on sale as low as $19.95 each. Our next catalog, in your hands August, will feature a large section of the latest sale-priced editions. But some are already low in stock, so I suggest acting now. Some have as few as 2 or 3 copies left as I write this, while others we have in good supply for now.

 
EC ARCHIVES CRIME SUSPENSTORIES Volume 3
Collects #13-18, 1952-53. Highly Recommended. By Al Williamson, Graham Ingels, George Evans, Joe Orlando, Johnny Craig, et al. Crime leaned a bit more in the direction of criminal activity, but really the creators and even the stories were the same wild stuff you got in the three EC horror titles. In fact, the Old Witch (with stories drawn by Ingles) makes regular appearances. But here we do get a variety of artists, including a wonderful collaboration of Williamson and Frank Frazetta, several more stories by Williamsonand a rare appearance of Sid Check. Retribution, shock endings, violent ends for bad boys and bad girls...Crime is the place to satisfy your craving for justice! Dark Horse, 2017...More.

Item Code: ECC03H
Hard Cover, 9x11, 216pg, Full Color
$49.99 $39.99

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
EC ARCHIVES CRIME SUSPENSTORIES Volume 2
Collects #7-12, 1951-52. Highly Recommended. By Al Feldstein and Johnny Craig. Art by Jack Davis, Johnny Craig, Jack Kamen et al. Classic chronicles of criminals and capers! Collecting issues from the immortal artistic talents of Al Feldstein, Johnny Craig, Jack Kamen, Jack Davis, and George Roussos. Plus every issue has a horror tale from The Haunt of Fear, narrated by the Old Witch and drawn by Graham Ingles, just like in EC's three horror titles. In fact, these stories were as horror-laden and shocking any of EC work--they just wanted to cash in on the "crime" so popular in comics. Handsomely recolored, giving these a fresh and up to date look and polish. Dark Horse, 2016...More.

Item Code: ECC02H
Hard Cover, 9x11, 216pg, Full Color
$49.99 $39.99

These are the only two releases in the new Dark Horse Crime Suspense series. Next should be Volume 4, then they'll most likely go back and redo Volume 1, which was first done by Gemstone.

 

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
COMPLETE EC PICTO-FICTION LIBRARY Set
Still Available! Original 2006 Edition! Our Highest Recommendation. At long last, the final component of The Complete EC Library! Seldom seen and highly sought-after for decades, Shock Illustrated, Terror Illustrated, Crime Illustrated, and Confessions Illustrated are among the hardest-to-find EC titles--because this experiment using magazine format and text & illustrations, wonderful as it was, didn't sell on the newsstands. Includes the rare Shock Vol. 3 (only 200 subscriber copies were ever distributed), but here too are 18 previously unpublished Picto-Fiction stories. Gemstone, 2006...More.

Item Code: CECHP
Hard Cover, 9x13, 240pg, b&w
$150.00 $

This was the very last EC Library to be published, and I still feel it's one of the finest. The Picto-Fictions from EC were published in black and white already, and in a larger magazine size, so this is as close to the originals as you will ever get. And the artists outdid themselves, with innovative layouts as well as outstanding detail and artwork. I've kept these in stock (albeit perhaps too quietly) ever since I discovered they were still available, and at the original publication price. 

See our website for all other EC Archives in the new Dark Horse editions: Weird Fantasy and Weird Science, Shock, Vault, Crypt, Haunt of Fear, Two-Fisted, Panic, and the single volume Valor.

We recently added a few of the Russ Cochran EC Archives sets to our Rare & Out of Print section, including Two-Fisted Tales, Weird Fantasy and Vault of Horror.

 

 
THE COMPLETE CHESTER GOULD'S DICK TRACY Volume 22
Dailies & Sundays, 1964-65. Recommended. By Chester Gould. Two worlds are in turmoil when the inter-species romance between Junior and the Moon Maid heats up. Can the twinkling of little antennae be too far in the future? Back on Earth, Dick Tracy quits, and gets taken prisoner by the Moon Maid's father! Diet Smith introduces the Two-Way Wrist Television fifty years before the Apple Watch, while Moon Maid turns vigilante and a series of events reveal a mob plot to kill both her and Dick Tracy. The clues eventually lead to Mr. Bribery, who proudly displays his collection of shrunken heads of the people who have crossed him. IDW, 2017...More.

Item Code: CC22H
Hard Cover, 11x9, 272pg, b&w
$44.99 $39.99

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
DICK TRACY Colorful Cases of The 1930s
Recommended. By Chester Gould. In the early 1930s, Chester Gould dramatically altered the comics landscape with a new style of gritty realism torn from Chicago's headlines. With this new kind of storytelling came a new way of coloring comics, a style as bold and vibrant as the stories themselves. This selection of Dick Tracy Sunday comics from 1931 to 1939 features Gould's most infamous villains of the decade; four complete stories plus forty more fabulous Sunday pages, reprinted for the first time in the original colors, and in full tabloid size. Sunday Press, 2016...More.

Item Code: DTCCH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 11x15, 168pg, Full Color
$75.00

See all available back volumes on our website; we have nearly every one, and what we don't have, we can special order for you. We also still have very limited quantities of these “hurts” at half cover price:

Vol 4 [CC04HR. $29.99, your price $14.99, nine copies left)

Vol 17 [CC17HR. $39.99, your price $19.99, one copy left)

Vol 20 (CC20HR. $39.99, your price $19.99, seven left)

These have one or more bumped corners, and may have small tears to the dust jackets. We also just added two copies of Volume 19 that have just a small tear to the jacket, but no corner bumps [CC19HR. $39.99, your price $24.99]. See all other slightly blemished “hurt” books on our website.

 

Now on Sale

 
These are items we are closing out, so quantity is very limited and we will not have any more at this price:

A New History Of Animation  NHIS $65.00 $39.00   
Tales Of The Peculiar   TALPH $24.99 $14.99
Cages (Second Edition)   CGES $29.99 $19.99
Naked Cartoonists    NAKEH $22.99 $7.99 
Marvel Masterworks Black Panther Volume 2   MMBP02H $75.00 $44.95


Goliath Signed    GOLSD $175.00 $105.00
We Told You So Comics As Art   WETYH $49.99 $29.99
Civil War Adventure Volume 2   CIVW02 $12.95 $7.95
Gold Key Alliance Volume 1   GKA01 $19.99 $11.99
Girl Power Amanda Conner Gallery Edition   GPACGH $125.00 $89.00


Harley Quinn Red White & Black Statue By Ant Lucia   HARRWB $80.00 $48.00
Spider-Gwen Statue   SPGW $150.00 $99.00
Women of Dynamite Jungle Girl Black &White Statue   WODJGB $249.99 $149.00
DC Harley Quinn New 52 Bishoujo Statue   DCHQN $74.99 $49.99
Women of Dynamite Red Sonja Black & White Statue   WODRSB $249.99 $175.00

 

Going Away

These are items we won’t be restocking, and are also in very short supply:

DC & Dark Horse Justice League 1   DCDJL01 $24.99 $21.99
Flash By Mark Waid 1    FLMW01 $24.99 21.99
Clear Blue Tomorrows   CLBT $15.95
Black Panther Epic Collection 1  Panther's Rage   BPE01 $34.99 $29.99


Captain America Epic Collection Volume 2 The Coming of...the Falcon   CAE02 $39.99 $34.99
Doctor Strange What Is It That Disturbs You, Stephen?   DRSW $29.99 $26.99
Women Of Dynamite Jungle Girl Diamond Eye Statue   WODJGD $249.99

 

Just Out of Print

Almost gone are these titles. Extremely limited quantities:

Women Of Dynamite Purgatori Black & White Statue Artist Proof   WODPB $275.00               
Spectrum 23    SPE23H  $45.00 $39.95

 

Mature Readers

Two new books and three DVDs this week: A Touch of Genie is a fantasy about getting all your wishes fulfilled; Never Sleep Alone is about two married partners cheating on one another; and Peekarama Pleasure Maze and Lovers Lane is a double feature of classic erotica. See our website for all the Peekarama Double Features.

From Euro-publisher Goliath we have two new Nude Photography books, one quite thick, which explores each girl as she has less and less, to nothing on: Kinky Super Beauties. Second is a thinner book of spontaneous, quirky works, Private Nudes.

See our website for all of our Nude Photography books, and also all current adult DVDs.

Nude Photography  |  Erotic Art   |  Erotic Films: DVDs  |  Adult Graphic Novels  |  All Pin-Up & Adult

 

News and Notes

Serpieri’s Druuna
We just cancelled customer backorders for Druuna by Serpieri Volume 0 and Volume 4, since our source had told us they were both no longer available. Well, lo and behold, what should show up here? So if you had one of these on order, you will need to reorder it. And, needless to say, they are once again available but for how long, who can say? Volumes 1, 2 and 3 are all currently available. [Volume 0 ANIMH. $19, Volumes 1-4 SER01H, SER02H, etc. $22 each.


Vampirella Arthur Adams Bust
We’ve already gotten several orders for this in the “regular” edition but we’ve just found that there will also be a “black and white” edition, available at the same price. We will get that up on the website as soon as possible, but wanted to let you know in case anyone wants to switch their order to the b&w version, or just order one of these. The regular edition ran into a publisher delay and a new ship date is to be determined. This is pictured in the current catalog (pin-up girl cover) on page 14. The b&w version was just announced for July shipping, which may or may not be accurate. Regular Edition: [WODBV. $89.99]. Black & White Edition [WODBVB].

~Bud

 

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Thursday, June 22, 2017

The new Illustrators Quarterly, Valerian, DC Bombshells, The Death of Hawkman, Rocketeer High-Flying Adventures, Superboy and the Legion of Superheroes, Doom Patrol Archives, Superman Golden Age, and French illustrator George Barbier.

The new Illustrators Quarterly looks at Mad Magazine artist Mort Drucker. There's a new Valerian, just ahead of the upcoming film. We also have a new DC Bombshells, The Death of Hawkman, Rocketeer High-Flying Adventures, from the 1970s comes Superboy and the Legion of Superheroes, the first Doom Patrol Archives, Superman Golden Age, and French illustrator George Barbier. Enjoy.

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ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY #18
Highly Recommended. With Mort Drucker, Ernesto Garcia Cabral, Katyuli Lloyd, John Watkiss. Included in this issue: Mort Drucker: one of the most iconic US artists, particularly known for MAD magazine. Ernesto Garcia Cabral: legendary talent and a true revolutionary. Puffin Books: the origins of this most successful publisher of children's books. Katyuli Lloyd: one of the hottest young talents making waves across a variety of media. John Watkiss: we reflect on the sad passing of this truly visionary artist. Book Palace, 2016...More.

Item Code: IQ18
Magazine, 9x11, 96pg, Full Color
$24.99

See our website for all back issues. Sets of #1-3 and #4-6 are on sale. The recently published special issue on Spanish illustrators has been very popular, here are full details:

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY SPECIAL #1 Spanish Artists
Highly Recommended. By Diego Cordoba. With Jordi Bernet, Enric, Luis Garcia, Pepe Gonzales, Esteban Maroto, Sanjulian and Josep Toutain. The inside story of the Spanish Studio/Agency (Toutain Studio) that transformed the Warren empire and brought an unprecedented realism into comics! This glorious book from illustrators is lavishly illustrated not only with Warren art, but with other comics projects, foreign publications, special projects, even specialty paintings never before seen. Finally we learn about these amazing talents that took comics by storm in the seventies and challenged U.S. artists with their abundant talent and creativity. Some nudity. Book Palace, 2016. Mature Readers...More.

Item Code: IQS01
Magazine, 8x11, 144pg, Partial Color
$34.99

 
PRIMAL The Art of Michael Rechlin Signed
Signed with signed postcard! Michael works in Character design/Miniature conceptualization, Illustration, and Merch design specializing in Fantasy & Macabre art.  He has worked with Dark Sword Miniatures doing well over 100 miniature concepts for their "Critter Kingdoms" line, was the concept artist for the Scottsdale Mint's Vikings: Gods. Kings. Warriors coin series, worked on "Kings of War" for Mantic Games along with many other projects. Michael Rechlin, 2017...More.

Item Code: PRIMS
Soft Cover, 6x9, 32pg, Partial Color
$20.00

Rechlin's previous book is Warfare: Character Designs and Illustrations, published in 2015. We have just three left, each with a large hand-drawn original drawing.  [WARFS. $20].

 

Graphic Novels

 
VALERIAN AND LAURELINE Hostages of Ultralum
Original edition 1996. By Pierre Christin. Art by J.C. Mézières. Two agents of 24th century Earth patrol space and time to safeguard both the planet's future and its past. The 16th volume of Valerian and Laureline, one of the most influential science-fiction comic series of the past 40 years! Cinebook, 2017...More.

Item Code: HOSUL
Soft Cover, 8x11, 64pg, Full Color
$15.95

See our website for more Valerian collections and watch for the upcoming film, coming in July. Directed by Luc Beeson (Fifth Element, Lucy, The Transporter), I think it should be another winner and look forward to seeing it.

 
DC COMICS BOMBSHELLS Volume 4 Queens
Collects #19-24, 2017. By Marguerite Bennett. Art by Laura Braga, Mirka Andolfo, and Marguerite Sauvage. The explosive creative team of writer Marguerite Bennett (Batwoman) and artists including Laura Braga (Witchblade), Mirka Andolfo (Ms. Marvel) and Marguerite Sauvage (Faith) bring an all-new chapter in the acclaimed alternate-history saga inspired by the hit DC Collectibles in DC Comics: Bombshells Vol. 4: Queens. DC, 2017...More.

Item Code: DCB04
Soft Cover, 7x10, 200pg, Full Color
$19.99 $17.99

All back volumes available, same discounted price. #1 and 2 are $16.99 your price $14.99. #3 is $19.99, your price $17.99. [DCB01, DCB02, DCB03].

We still have these DC Bombshells statues, at publication price of $125 except where noted: Stargirl (on sale at $75), Batwoman (on sale at $99.95), Harley Quinn (on sale at $69), Cheetah, Halloween Batgirl and Raven.

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
ART OF DC COMICS BOMBSHELLS
Highly Recommended. By Ant Lucia. Reimagined as World War II-era pinup girls, Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Supergirl, Poison Ivy and their mates are among the most extraordinary and fun characters in comics today. These gorgeous statues alone have become modern-day classics, inspiring a new comics series and posters, playing cards and special projects. Go behind the scenes on the creation of all this, with lots of previously unpublished drawings, sketches and more. Includes commentary by the creative team. Very well done. DC, 2016...More.

Item Code: ARDCBH
Hard Cover, 9x12, 200pg, Full Color
$39.99 $34.99

 
DAMSELS IN EXCESS Volume 1
By Vince Hernandez. Art by Mirka Andolfo. In the land of the Five Realms, the existence of men has long since been evaporated from the hearts and minds of women. Princess Bethany--ruler of Evanfar, the largest and most prominent kingdom, finds herself at the center of a vast conspiracy that could not only threaten her kingdom-but also her life! Journey to a place where magic is abundant, unicorns and ferrets can command armies, and five women struggle to find balance-and power--in an ever-changing fairy tale world! Aspen MLT, 2017...More.

Item Code: DAMS01
Soft Cover, 7x10, 144pg, Full Color
$14.99

 
DEATH OF HAWKMAN
By Marc Andreyko. Collected for the first time, the acclaimed miniseries from writer Marc Andreyko (Batwoman, Wonder Woman ‘77) and artist Aaron Lopresti (Wonder Woman), Death of Hawkman—the last great adventure of one of comics' most legendary heroes! DC Comics, 2017...More.

Item Code: DEAHA
Soft Cover, 7x10, 192pg, Full Color
$16.99 $14.99

 
LOST PLANET
By Bo Hampton. Somewhere in the dark jungles of the Andes mountains lies a Dimensional Bridge which leads to a violent, medieval world ruled by Magic of the Blackest sort! Fortune hunter  Tyler Flynn enlists fellow ex-pats Ambrose Bierce and Amelia Earhart in a desperate attempt to break free from the diabolical orbit of... the Lost Planet. IDW, 2017...More.

Item Code: LOSPH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x10, 180pg, b&w
$29.99 $26.99

 

Comic Book Archives

 
SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES Volume 1
By Paul Levitz. Art by Mike Grell. These classic 1970s stories are collected in hardcover for the first time! In stories from Superboy and The Legion of Super-Heroes #234-240 and All-New Collectors' Edition #C-55, the Legion give Superboy a treatment that blocks his memory, try to stop the Worldsmith from terraforming the surface of Braal and witness the wedding of Saturn Girl and Lightning Lad! DC, 2017...More.

Item Code: SUPE01H
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 6x8, 312pg, Full Color
$49.99 $39.99

 
ROCKETEER HIGH-FLYING ADVENTURES
By John Cassaday, John Byrne, Dave Gibbons et al. Art by Alex Ross, John Byrne, Darwyn Cooke et al. The Rocketeer Adventures continued where Dave Stevens' original masterpiece left off, creating for the first time new stories involving the ace stunt pilot Cliff Secord. This oversized deluxe edition collects all 24 stories by some of the most talented creators in comics. IDW, 2017...More.

Item Code: ROCHFH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x11, 268pg, Full Color
$39.99 $34.99

See more Rocketeer and work by Dave Stevens on our website. This new low-priced Artisan Edition has been well-received:

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
DAVE STEVENS' ROCKETEER Artisan Edition
Our Highest Recommendation. Direct Market Exclusive Edition! Each page of art, showing blue pencils and finished b&w inking, has been scanned from Dave Stevens' gorgeous original art. Collecting the entire Rocketeer saga,119 pages and 7 covers, from 1981-94,  featuring his iconic, pulp-inspired hero. Down-on-his luck aviator Cliff Secord finds an experimental jetpack, then is pursued by Nazi agents intent on capturing the pack, all while balancing his relationship with his stunning girlfriend Betty (inspired by the real Bettie Page). IDW, 2017...More.

Item Code: DSRAE
Soft Cover, 8x12, 140pg, b&w
$39.99 $34.99

 
DOOM PATROL Silver Age Omnibus
Recommended. By Arnold Drake, Bob Haney and Bruno Premiani. Gathering all of the original, offbeat adventures from the 1960s in one massive omnibus collection! This was DC's version of the X-Men--a rag-tag group as heroes. This fast-paced volume introduces The Doom Patrol, led by their wheelchair-bound chief, Niles Calder, three outcasts of society—Negative Man, Elasti-Girl and Robotman—take the qualities that make them freaks and become heroes. The trio would take on bizarre menaces including General Immortus, the Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man and the Brotherhood of Evil! DC, 2017...More.

Item Code: DOOMPH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x10, 1080pg, Full Color
$99.99 $85.00

We also have Volume 1 and 2 of the newer series from 1989-90, both with killer cover art by Brian Bolland. Both are being discontinued and we have just 3 and 4 copies [DOP01, DOP02. $29.99, your price $26.99 each].

 
SUPERMAN THE GOLDEN AGE Volume 3
Collects Action Comics #32-40, Superman #8-11, World's Best Comics #1 and World's Finest Comics #2. By Jerry Siegel. Art by Joe Shuster. In the early 1940s, Superman was a much-needed hero for a nation on the brink of war. The Man of Steel (and the comic book medium) were in their Golden Age, and with each new story, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were continuing to expand and enrich the world of their still-relatively-new creation. In these early adventures, Superman must protect the citizens of Metropolis from a variety of threats ranging from insurance scams and gangsters to spies and saboteurs. Plus, Lex Luthor returns to cement his place as Superman's arch nemesis, with more schemes and gadgets than any other villain facing the Man of Steel! DC, 2017...More.

Item Code: SUGA03
Soft Cover, 7x10, 400pg, Full Color
$29.99 $26.99

Volumes 1 and 2 remain available [SUG01, SUG02. $19.99, your price $17.99 each]. The Omnibus Volumes 2-4, which have roughly 500 pages each, are also in stock [SG02H, SG03H, SG04H. $75, your price $65 each]. Volume 1 Omnibus is sold out.

 

Art & Illustrated Books

 
ROMANCE OF TRISTAN AND ISEULT
Recommended. Dating from the 12th century, this tale of a star-crossed romance between a Cornish knight and an Irish princess is rooted in Celtic legend and French poetry. Tristan's heroic exploits win Iseult as a bride for his uncle, King Mark. But during their sea voyage to Mark's kingdom, Tristan and Iseult unknowingly drink a love potion that arouses their passion for each other and raises irresistible challenges to their loyalty and honor. This stunning edition, featuring a subtle color treatment by noted German illustrator Robert Engels, with illustrations on nearly every page, brings the tale to life with effects similar to those of modern graphic novels.Calla, 2017...More.

Item Code: ROMTH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x11, 137pg, Full Color
$35.00 $29.95

See all of our recommended Calla books on the website.

 
GEORGE BARBIER Master of Art Deco
Highly Recommended. Text by Hiroshi Unno. George Barbier is today the most famous artist to come out of the heady Art Deco world in France in the 1910-1930 period. His illustrated books are enormously popular. His fashion illustration was spot on. His erotically themed pictures of semi-clad and nude women are some of the finest of the period. But to this day, very little has been written about this. This fine new book is based on an exhibit that originated in Japan, collecting a once-in-a-lifetime abundance of his original artwork. PIE, 2011...More.

Item Code: GEOB
Soft Cover, 7x10, 296pg, Full Color
$35.00

Back in stock! In the same series from PIE, all highly recommended: just published, World of Alphonse Mucha, plus Harry Clarke, Beautiful Book Designs from the Middle Ages, A Thousand and One Nights: The Art of Folklore, Avante-Garde Graphics in Russia. All of these are simply gorgeous, well produced books from designer Hiroshi Unno, and published in Japan.

 
MOMENTARY THE ART OF ILYA KUVSHINOV
By Ilya Kuvshinov. Ilya Kuvshinov is a Russian illustrator and comic artist based in Japan. In this first book collection of his work, readers can see a fascinating combination of adorable girls with large, manga-influenced eyes, and soulful Japanese landscape illustrations. Momentary features never-before-published finished work and sketches, as well as written commentary (in both Japanese and English) from the artist himself. Comic Art Pie, 2016...More.

Item Code: MOMIK
Soft Cover, 7x8, 192pg, Full Color
$29.95

 
ILLUSIONS The Art of Magic Posters from the Golden Age of Magic
Recommended. By Jacques Ayroles, David Ben, Ersy Contogouris et al. 250 breathtaking posters, most from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, recapture magnificent, large-format chromolithographs that immortalize the magicians and the acts that marked the world of modern magic. Seven author-experts introduce this fabulous array of color and imagery. Poster designers and printers were inspired by all variety of phantasmagoric imagery: devils and demons, skeletons and skulls, cards and rabbits, alluring assistants and symbols of exoticism. 5 Continents, 2017...More.

Item Code: ILLMH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 10x12, 248pg, Full Color
$45.00

 
TOYBOX TIME MACHINE A Catalog of The Coolest Toys Never Made
By Marty Baumann. Foreword by Jim Steranko. Recapture an innocent era of boundless commercial creativity in a beautifully illustrated tome featuring some of the greatest toys NEVER made (but wouldn't your world have been a better place if they had been?). A tribute to the unbridled imaginations, madcap design, and illustrative skills of the toy creators who drew inspiration from the robots, movie monsters, comic books, and military men that kids adored, as well as the limitless possibilities of the space age. Showcased in catalogs, comics, trading cards, drug store and department store displays, somehow these geniuses knew what we wanted before we did. Marty Baumann has drawn inspiration from these incredible creators and extrapolated on those outlandish and appealing ideas, developing and illustrating an amazing array of fictional toys that reflect that optimistic era. IDW, 2017...More.

Item Code: TOYBH
Hard Cover with CD - No Dustjacket, 7x11, 160pg, Full Color
$29.99 $26.99

 

Hank Janson with Reginald Heade Covers

 
KILL HER IF YOU CAN
Almost Gone! By Hank Janson. Cover art by Reginald Heade. In the 1940s and 1950s, the Hank Janson novels, with their sleazy covers and no-holds-barred tales, were a guilty pleasure for millions of readers, but incurred the wrath of the establishment! Telos Publishing is delighted to bring selected examples back into print to be enjoyed by long-time fans and new readers alike. Telos Publishing, 2005. Out of Print....More.

Item Code: KILHE
Soft Cover, 6x8, 162pg, Text Only
$18.00

 
FRAILS CAN BE SO TOUGH
Almost Gone! By Hank Janson. Cover art by Reginald Heade. In the 1940s and 1950s, the Hank Janson novels, with their sleazy covers and no-holds-barred tales, were a guilty pleasure for millions of readers, but incurred the wrath of the establishment! Telos Publishing is delighted to bring selected examples back into print to be enjoyed by long-time fans and new readers alike. Telos Publishing, 2004. Out of Print....More.

Item Code: FRACA
Soft Cover, 6x8, 176pg, Text Only
$18.00

 
KILLER
Almost Gone! By Hank Janson. Cover art by Reginald Heade. In the 1940s and 1950s, the Hank Janson novels, with their sleazy covers and no-holds-barred tales, were a guilty pleasure for millions of readers, but incurred the wrath of the establishment! Telos Publishing is delighted to bring selected examples back into print to be enjoyed by long-time fans and new readers alike. Telos Publishing, 2004. Out of Print....More.

Item Code: KILLE
Soft Cover, 6x8, 150pg, Text Only
$18.00

 
ACCUSED
Almost Gone! By Hank Janson. Cover art by Reginald Heade. In the 1940s and 1950s, the Hank Janson novels, with their sleazy covers and no-holds-barred tales, were a guilty pleasure for millions of readers, but incurred the wrath of the establishment! Telos Publishing is delighted to bring selected examples back into print to be enjoyed by long-time fans and new readers alike. Telos Publishing, 2004. Out of Print....More.

Item Code: ACCUS
Soft Cover, 6x8, 152pg, Text Only
$18.00

 
SKIRTS BRING ME SORROW
Almost Gone! By Hank Janson. Cover art by Reginald Heade. In the 1940s and 1950s, the Hank Janson novels, with their sleazy covers and no-holds-barred tales, were a guilty pleasure for millions of readers, but incurred the wrath of the establishment! Telos Publishing is delighted to bring selected examples back into print to be enjoyed by long-time fans and new readers alike. Telos Publishing, 2003. Out of Print....More.

Item Code: SKIBR
Soft Cover, 6x8, 152pg, Text Only
$18.00

 
SOME LOOK BETTER DEAD
Almost Gone! By Hank Janson. Cover art by Reginald Heade. In the 1940s and 1950s, the Hank Janson novels, with their sleazy covers and no-holds-barred tales, were a guilty pleasure for millions of readers, but incurred the wrath of the establishment! Telos Publishing is delighted to bring selected examples back into print to be enjoyed by long-time fans and new readers alike. Telos Publishing, 2003. Out of Print....More.

Item Code: SOMLO
Soft Cover, 6x8, 112pg, Text Only
$18.00

 
WOMEN HATE TILL DEATH
Almost Gone! By Hank Janson. Cover art by Reginald Heade. In the 1940s and 1950s, the Hank Janson novels, with their sleazy covers and no-holds-barred tales, were a guilty pleasure for millions of readers, but incurred the wrath of the establishment! Telos Publishing is delighted to bring selected examples back into print to be enjoyed by long-time fans and new readers alike. Telos Publishing, 2003. Out of Print....More.

Item Code: WOMHA
Soft Cover, 6x8, 144pg, Text Only
$18.00

 
WHEN DAMES GET TOUGH
Almost Gone! By Hank Janson. Cover art by Reginald Heade. In the 1940s and 1950s, the Hank Janson novels, with their sleazy covers and no-holds-barred tales, were a guilty pleasure for millions of readers, but incurred the wrath of the establishment! Telos Publishing is delighted to bring selected examples back into print to be enjoyed by long-time fans and new readers alike. Telos Publishing, 2004. Out of Print....More.

Item Code: WHEDA
Soft Cover, 6x8, 224pg, Text Only
$18.00

We listed three more titles last week: Broads Don't Scare Easy, Torment, and Blonde on the Spot - these are in print at $14.95 each. All the titles listed above are being closed out by the publisher in England. We were only able to get a few of each, all under ten copies. So this may be the first and last time we offer these titles. See the Art of Reginald Heade on our website [ARRHH. $49.99]. Also from the same publisher and just published:

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
TITILLATION The Vintage Pulp Magazine Pin-Up Art of Peter Driben
Recommended. Peter Driben was one of the most prolific cover artists to work on the risqué "girlie pulp" magazines that flourished in the USA between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. This meticulously-researched, lavishly-illustrated book is a glorious celebration of his work, and an absolutely essential addition to the bookshelves of anyone with a taste for classic pin-up and magazine cover artwork. Import from England. Silk Stockings, Wink, Movie Humor, High Heel, Bedtime Stories, Pep, Snappy, La Paree, Spicy, Eyeful, Flirt, Whisper...he worked for them all. Telos, 2017...More.

Item Code: TITIL
Soft Cover, 9x11, 190pg, Full Color
$39.95

Below is a book ABOUT the Hank Janson novels, also sporting a cool Reginald Heade cover. This is in print so our supply is not limited:

 
TRIALS OF HANK JANSON
By Steve Holland. Respected researcher and pulp fiction historian Steve Holland gives, for the first time, a comprehensive account of the early 1950s Home Office crackdown on so called ‘obscene' paperbacks – of which the Hank Janson novels were the prime examples. He also presents a full biography of Hank Janson – in reality, a man named Stephen D Frances. Telos Publishing, 2004...More.

Item Code: TRIHA
Soft Cover, 6x8, 344pg, Partial Color
$14.95

 

Mature Readers

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News and Notes

Rare and Out of Print

We just posted several of Russ Cochran's Complete EC Library Collections, like Shock SuspenStories, Weird Fantasy and Vault of Horror. Also there are both of the New Trend 3-volume collections which include Valor, Extra, Impact, MD, Piracy, etc. Also up is most volumes of The Complete Little Lulu Library, published by Another Rainbow. Volumes 2-6 will all be posted shortly, along with more EC Librarys including The Complete Two-Fisted Tales, original Little Lulu books from the 1940s, and Milo Manara Glamour Books.

See all available Rare and Out of Print books here.

 

The Rose City Book Fair in Portland went very well for us. It was the first time we've exhibited there. I got reacquainted with a number of old friends from both the book and the comics world, including Steve Duin. Steve co-wrote Comics Between the Panels with Dark Horse president Mike Richardson a number of years ago and I was one of many fans and pros he interviewed for it. We even worked out a trade for several Golden Age comics. I'm posting some pictures on our Facebook page, and will have a further report when I get back home next week. Next up is a visit with Mr. Monster's Michael Gilbert, who lives in Eugene, Oregon.

~Bud

 

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